GPS TRACKING APPS FOR iPHONE & ANDROID
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Proximity marketing, once the sole province of national brands and their big box retailers, is now available to local businesses nationwide thanks to GTX Corp and Adam, Inc.
010 months ago
Reducing the cost of marketing without losing its effectiveness is a major attribute of GPS enabled proximity marketing as it pushes offers only to customers that are within the immediate vicinity of a retailer and capable of responding to promotional offers in real time. The once traditional media shotgun approach that became the internet rifle shot is now the smartphone laser offering a million wallet-in-hand markets of individual consumers.
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) a leader in 2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) and ADAM, Inc., the nation’s largest platform for Hyper Local Mobile Apps for Directories, will enable 123 Chambers of Commerce representing over 100,000 businesses nationwide to push out proximity promotions, utilizing the GTX Corp GPS/PLS Platform and leveraging its one million and growing GPS Tracking Smartphone App user base.
Enhance your business brand with GPS enabling Smartphone Apps
011 months ago
If knowing the where and when of your customer’s immediate location will provide your company or your clients with a real-time sales opportunity, an on the spot service call, an immediate face to face meeting, or ease of access to a difficult to find location, now is the time to offer your own branded GPS APP.
If you are managing a corporate or academic campus with hundreds or thousands of employees, numerous mobile assets with a variety of security concerns and need to know the answers to the who, where and when questions — then now is the time to provide people and asset tracking GPS services of your own.
If you monitor the location of people and property for a multinational enterprise and need to know now — the answer can be found at: info@gtxcorp.com.
GTXCorp (GTXO.OB) can provide patent protected, field proven, seamless, cost-effective, private label solutions that will meet even the most demanding specifications.
When don’t you have to look high and low for a GPS Tracking App?
012 months ago
When the GPS tracking apps from LOCiMOBILE are all ready embedded in the new Skytex Technology, Inc. 7” Android 2.2 tablet with wifi/GPS due for release in a couple of weeks.
Better still, the tablet is the perfect device to receive wandering and elopement alerts from those afflicted with Alzheimer’s and track them with the patented GPS Smart Shoes marketed by Aetrex Worldwide, Inc.
GTX Corp (GTXO.OB) a leader in enterprise 2 way GPS real-time Personal Location Services (PLS) was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California with distributors in Mexico, Australia and Nepal and customers in 104 countries. GTX Corp utilizes the latest in miniaturized, low power consumption technology and offers a robust enterprise GPS and cellular location platform to track in real time the whereabouts of people, pets, vehicles and high valued assets which include grandma and grandpa.
Proximity marketing will push Location Based Services revenues to nearly $13Billion
012 months ago
Knowing where you are will give you the answer to the “where is” question.
Recent developments in GPS positioning technologies could drive revenues from mobile location-based services to more than $12.7 billion by 2014, according to a new report published by Juniper Research.
Revenues will come from sales of apps through application stores and other channels, but also from mobile advertising tied to those apps. In fact, the Juniper report notes that advertising will likely form an increasing share of Mobile Location Based Services-related revenues over the next five years.
In the words of co-author Dr Windsor Holden:“Location-based applications are extremely interesting for brands and retailers in that they allow those companies to direct consumers to outlets in their vicinity while simultaneously providing information about the products on offer. When these are allied to measures such as mobile coupons and vouchers, you have the combination of information and financial incentive which can be compelling for consumers.”
Enterprises making noise in the LBS space:
Mobile question and answer startup ChaCha is on a roll, possibly achieving profitability, raising boatloads of money, and even venturing into social media with a Facebook app. Today, ChaCha is getting into the business listings game with local business search company Localeze. Localeze will provide ChaCha’s website with in-depth information about more than 15 million businesses across the country.
ChaCha.com visitors can access the local business listings in a search bar and through a direct listings page. In both cases, they will be served a full content page that includes Google maps, directions, phone, and other contact information. And of course, any questions and answers related to the business can be found on the content pages. Business listings can also be viewed by category and or state and city. Eventually, ChaCha’s listings will be integrated with its chachacoupons.com site.
Peanut Labs Media launches Cherry Deals. Cherry Deals tracks location when users buy virtual goods when playing social games and offers deals on real goods.
GTX Corp utilizes miniaturized 2 Way GPS Devices and GPS Tracking Apps carried on multiple cellular platforms to enable those subscribers with permission to follow people, pets, vehicles or valued assets in real time and to participate in Location Based Social Networking through its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary.
Twenty-seven birds and a billion handsets
01 year ago
I believe that citizen socialization is being advanced by personal wireless location based technologies that speaks to a future rich with opportunities for saving lives, enhancing the quality of our lifestyles and providing us with sustainable experiences that reduce our energy consumption while enhancing our social and business engagements with one another.
A belief shared by President Obama in his State of the Union address and CEO Patrick Bertagna in a recent press release for his GPS enterprise; GTX Corp.
While GPS applications are currently carrier platform specific, they are politically agnostic and will prove to be the seed of countless applications that even SciFi aficionados have not imagined, but that legislators are beginning to realize are essential tools in reducing health care costs, improving personal security, building consumer consensus and communication franchises that abet the stimulation of local businesses. GPS makes a world of difference and the company leading the world in two way miniaturized embedded “where is” technology can be found at: www.gtxcorp.com
Quantitative proof of the frequency of the “where” question being asked
01 year ago
Among all smartphone users, the most popular app among feature phone users is Google Maps (46%) followed closely by Facebook (45%). The simplest conclusion to be drawn from the data is that “where” is my; friend, family, spouse or co-worker must be top of mind for multi-millions and the GPS Tracking app to resolve that question is to be found at LOCiMOBILE, a subsidiary of GTXCorp (GTXO.OB).
Where they are asking the “where” question is now going vehicular…
The number of consumers using telematics smartphone apps with connected cars is about to increase over 40 times in the next five years. ABI Research today estimates that by 2016, 129 million people will use smartphone software that works with a vehicle, up from only 3.2 million consumers this year. Such forecasts could fuel new and innovative mobile apps specific to vehicles and travel-related activities.
Smartphone applications specific to cars may best illustrate the promise of mobility and connectivity: intelligent, discreet devices combined with wireless broadband and smarter cars. While there have been a number of in-vehicle applications for years — think of navigation, point-of-interest searches, real-time traffic data and remote automobile diagnostics — most until now have been constrained for use within the vehicle.
By leveraging the ability for a smartphone to be tied with a car, such apps can move beyond in-car use. And as vehicles gain more processors and sensors, especially in greener cars as noted in a GigaOM Pro report, (subscription required), the possibilities for mobile apps will expand.
So what kinds of mobile apps will connect smartphone-toting drivers with their cars? Ford already launched software specific to its all-electric Ford Focus, allowing users to remotely monitor the battery level and even schedule a recharge during off-peak rate hours. Location Labs, in a partnership with T-Mobile, today launched software that can detect when a driver is behind the wheel of a vehicle and automatically shoot calls direct to voicemail or lock down access to text messaging. Focused on driver safety, the new app appears to monitor vehicle movement through GPS, but in the future, could get that data directly from the car. Whatever the application, mobile broadband and smart handsets combined with the cars of tomorrow could give new meaning to the term “information superhighway.”
Seems like everyone is saying; “got to have my Samsung!”
01 year ago
Samsung announced last week that the company is looking sell more than 60 million smartphones in 2011, 40 million or three times as many as 2010.
Samsung anticipates the majority of its sales to come from their Galaxy portfolio of phones which utilize the company’s proprietary BADA platform. GTXCorp was specifically asked by the company to make its GPS Tracking Apps available to Samsung customers.
GTX Corp (GTXO) has been keeping pace with the smartphone trend developing a portfolio of GPS Tracking and GPS based LOCiMOBILE applications that eschew the public commercialism of Four Square and Gowalla for a robust, private set of functional apps that provide easy to access permission based location information.
The nobody’s else’s business, but your own – social check-in with extras.
01 year ago
The LOCiMOBILE iCheck-In ™ does not need an app to let those in your contact list learn what you’re doing and where you’re at… IF and WHEN you want them to know.
Introducing iCheck-in – the newest and most privacy protected solution to sharing your location with others of your choosing.
With a single click of a smartphone button an iCheck-In ™ is either sent as an e-mail or a direct posting to your Facebook wall.
What you send a contact includes; your what’s up message with a Google map and turn by turn directions to get from their wherever to where you are right now as an extra.
LOCiMOBILE is a business unit of GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB). It has more than 750,000 personal location service users in 100 countries – from Kathmandu to Klamath Falls you can find people finding people with apps, devices and software you can’t find anywhere else. GTX Corp® utilizes the latest in miniaturized GPS and cellular location platforms enabling subscribers to track the whereabouts of; people, pets, vehicles or valued assets in real time through a proprietary end to end solution via smartphone apps, middleware, and viewing portals.
In the race for smartphone platform supremacy who is in the lead?
01 year ago
The U.S. smartphone market is booming. Nearing the end of the third quarter a range of analyst firms have posted their current figures on the market.
The figures do provide a clear picture of which platforms are accelerating in the U.S. smartphones market and from which platforms market share is being lost.
For developers these trends are essential for planning and development of new app and for what platform they will be offered. LOCiMobile has 17 apps which are currently available on multiple smartphone platforms.
Google Maps for mobile 4.5 turns to Walking Navigation
01 year ago
LOCiMOBILE GPS TRACKING APPS USE GOOGLE MAPS
Google continues adding new features to its Google Maps for mobile service, unveiling Walking Navigation (Beta), a new tool promising users a more direct and pedestrian-friendly route to their destination. “Your phone will vibrate when you need to make a turn,” write software engineers Andrey Ulanov and Kevin Law on the Official Google Mobile Blog. “You can even turn off voice guidance and just use these notifications while soaking in the sights and sounds around you. To help you orient yourself with your surroundings, the map will rotate with you as you turn the phone, and walking mode uses satellite view by default. Use it like a virtual compass with satellite imagery to look ahead or help pick out landmarks along the way.”
Google Maps for mobile 4.5 (available for now for smartphones running Android 1.6 and up) also boasts Street View smart navigation, a feature already available to desktop users. “You no longer have to slowly move down a street by tapping arrows along roads repeatedly,” Ulanov and Law explain. “Now you can quickly navigate Street View by dragging Pegman from the corner and highlighting where you want to go with a lightly shaded ‘pancake’ on roads or a rectangle on buildings. Let go of the screen when highlighting the front of a building, and you’ll fly there and turn to face it.” Google Maps for mobile additionally includes a new search bar that filters results by distance and ratings, offers prices categorized with dollar signs and depicts cross streets for places.
In late August, Google announced that the Google Maps for mobile solution now tops 100 million users a month, roughly five years after its initial rollout. Writing on the Official Google Mobile Blog, vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra noted that in the wake of recent enhancements like the April 2010 addition of Place Pages (web pages organizing all relevant information about a particular destination), users are now searching for specific locations almost three times as often, doubling the number of Place Pages viewed each day.